An urgent call has been made by the Syrian Human rights Committee concerning events in Syria. It reports that the security forces of the Syrian regime in the city of Lattakia are committing a massacre, in which more than 25 peaceful citizens so far have been killed, despite no resistance or violence from them. The Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) calls upon the international community to work to stop the bloodbath taking place in Lattakia, and to stop all massacres being committed by the security forces and militia men of the Syrian regime.
The SHRC holds the Syrian regime and the Syrian President completely responsible for every drop of blood spilt in Lattakia and in other Syrian cities, and condemns in the strongest of terms this brutal unjustified massacre taking place against peaceful citizens, and considers it an act of genocide. Syria’s president however dashed expectations that he would announce sweeping reforms and instead took a tough line, blaming two weeks of popular fury on a foreign conspiracy.